Games on Flash Drives. Discuss.

[DEElekgolo]

Wat.

[BobtheGreatII]

They were talking about putting games on USB drives, much like movies. Did you miss the memo?

[ExAm]

Nifty. I'd buy a USB game.

[=sw=warlord]

Nifty. I'd buy a USB game.

About time they started doing this, it allows more storage and could also help prevent piracy, install the DRM on the usb and your sorted.

[thehoodedsmack]

Games on USB? Reminds me of the N64 cartridge days. We might not even have to install anything. In fact, it might be great for combating piracy if it was all read-only. The only thing you'd need to save to your computer would be save-files.

[=sw=warlord]

Games on USB? Reminds me of the N64 cartridge days. We might not even have to install anything. In fact, it might be great for combating piracy if it was all read-only. The only thing you'd need to save to your computer would be save-files.

Yeah, been thinking on this for a while, USB2.0 can support upto 300mbps if i remember right which is usualy faster than sustained HDD transfers which means not only would the levels load quicker it should have a impact on ingame performance as well.

[Abdurahman]

yeah but flash drives are much slower than the max usb2.0 speed.

[=sw=warlord]

yeah but flash drives are much slower than the max usb2.0 speed.

Much slower at the moment, i would rather have a USB thumb drive for my data than a flimsy DVD.

[ExAm]

The biggest problem I can see with games not being installed on the drive is the lack of access to the files for modding. This would be very bad.

[Abdurahman]

I agree the flash drives are a good idea, but would they raise costs of games? New games are already ridiculously expensive, and we can all agree flash drives are much more expensive than dvds. Also, the loading would be pretty slow, considering hard drives are much faster.

If faster flash drives are developed, you know with USB 3.0 around the corner, it would be the perfect medium. Thing is, you would then have a drawer full of flash drives!